"Breeding-back" aims to restore or immitate extinct animals by selective breeding. This blog provides general information, the facts behind myths and news from various projects.

Monday, 17 November 2014

Remarkable: A video of Lutz Heck's cattle from the 1940s

I was very surprised when I saw that there is actually video footage of the early Heck cattle - particularly interesting: it shows a herd of Lutz Heck's diminished cattle, which where introduced and kept like red deer in the Rominter Heide in former East Prussia, today Russia and Poland. It must be from the 1940s because the cattle didn't arrive there prior to to 1940. To a very large extent, those cattle are a combination of Lidia, Corsican and Camargue. They actually look like just another southern-european medium-aurochs like breed. They were very small as well, among other deficient aspects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEnkiX9qGhY&feature=youtu.be

they are visible for just a moment, but they look like the most heckcattle thisdays. They are smal, short horns, no hump. The first time i saw "auerochsen" was in Tripsdrill (1984), and i wonder they are so small and look like a small dark cow. They looked like the animals in the video. Since 1984 is a long time for man, but a schort time for breeding back auerochsen. But the breeders did a great work, look at island of Wörth. There are some bulls and cows, I want to have them, they are great. It is possible to breed the Auerochs "back", i believe. The breeders have so much good animals now, in just a few generations ( may be 3 or 4). Using heckcattle and then 2 generations of old south-europian races.

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This blog is on everything related to the so-called “breeding-back” of extinct animals: From the extinct animals themselves, over their often domestic descendants and dedomestication to news and facts about various breeding-back projects, reports and photos from my own breeding-back related trips. I try to have a balanced and fact-based approach to this subject and to dismantle many of the popular myths. Enjoy!

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My major interest always have been extinct animals, from dinosaurs to Pleistocene megafauna and more recent extinctions. Besides that I am interested in evolution, genetics and ecology.
I am also an amateur animal artist, making drawings and models mostly of extinct animals.